News features: Solar-charged driving

The 20th century's love affair with the automobile saw billions of vehicles deployed around the world, making ordinary people's lives more convenient and enhancing their mobility. These benefits came with a hea...

STELLA, a 100 percent solar-powered car, and Lex Hoefsloot, a member of the student-research team at Eindhoven Technical University in The Netherlands. For years, genuine solar charged driving or in-situ solar...

You gotta hand it to Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk: He knows how to make Tesla look good, and the competition look, well, just plain behind the times.
Tesla's quickly building out its network of solar-power...

Rudy Summers poses in front of the family's three solar-charged EVs, a Chevy Volt, a BMW ActiveE, and a Toyota RAV4 EV. You can see the solar system that powers the EVs on the garage roof. An interesting artic...

Boulder, Colorado's Rich Becks is among the growing number of solar-charged drivers in the U.S. However, in terms of total drivers in the U.S., in powering his EV with solar, he's still among a tiny, tiny perc...

Want to win a solar-charged All-Electric Smart Car?
Then you might want to consider entering the Real Goods Solar Smart Electric Sweepstakes. Real Goods will hand over the keys to an Electric Smart Car and i...